No worries. Thanks.
How acoustic and some simple tweaks can cure audiophile disease for small pocket budget
My surprize came after installing a 4 inches M-Audio AV 40 i bought 12 years ago and which i used all these times as speakers but for computer use only not music... I disliked them for music BEFORE i connected them in a dedicated small acoustic corner dedicated for them and BEFORE i connected them to a synergetical good dac : Nos tda 1543 French battery dac of Christophe Mariac...
My surprize was , with no deep bass for sure , but the bass being good i can live with that, a very accurate timbre and clear 3-d imaging soundfield with some depth and extension out of the speakers , it is recording dependant ...😊
My surprize was that i was thinking i am a fool to enjoy so cheap gear component...😁
I secure all interconnected with my homemade "golden plate " : shungite +copper tape....Sometimes i added a piece of quartz for increasing "clarity" ... it is my homemade cure against EMI and RFI ...
My surprize was rediscovering after loosing my dedicated Mission Cyrus 781 big boxes /dedicated acoustic room , it was discovering i could enjoy, modulo a simplest acoustic disposition because the M-Audio speakers are way smaller , a relatively "real audiophile " experience with speakers again...
My new small acoustic corner is created with diffusive surface and 2 foldable screens , one in wood that reflect more , and one in thick paper and wooden grid that absorb a bit some frequencies and reflect some other , i place them to create a corner , the rest is very diffusive enclosure ... The results is astounding so much i could live with it...No deep bass but a decent bass and clarity with no distortion... M-Audio MV 40 is called "studiophile" and well reviewed by steve Guttenberg...But beware, the version with the bass button is mine and necessary, if not the bass lack punch...
With my first acoustic dedicated room and now with my little acoustic corner i proved for myself that audiophile experience is based on ACOUSTIC not on the price of gear at all...
Now i will not be confined either as i tought to headphone only listening, with my AKG K340 driven by the microzotl as headphone amplifier or from the headphone out from the Sansui Au 7700 as amplifier +the microzotl2 as pre-amp.... My end game audiophile true system is now headphone for sure...But i will be in heaven listening casually music from speakers again....
Acoustic is the sleeping princess in audio and the kissing prince is your ears/brain, the 7 working dwarves are only the gear working pieces...
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i just listened in awe to the cheap speakers M-Audio MV40 typing this... An album with Charlie Mariano and Sadao Watanabe in duet ... I never liked these speakers for the last 12 years i owned them ... i only love them now because , having no more my Mission Cyrus , i created an acoustic corner around them because i had no other speakers and no other choice ..😊 I had my biases , and i never listen to good cheap speakers... Before this acoustic settlement around them and a few tweaks i thought that Steve Guttenberg exagerated giving them 8 on 10 in his review long time ago...But Guttenbergt was right ... I was wrong simply because i listened to them with the wrong component in the wrong room... A four inches bass driver cannot be put anywhere without any acoustic devices... This made me doubt my sanity in ordering the microzotl headphone amplifier or pre-amp for my Sansui power amp headphone out... I will not say this to my wife who asked me why i ordered the costlier piece of gear i ever bought ...😁 I doubt myself sanity... i hope the microzotl2 will be damn good ...Tomorrow after Fedex delivery 😁
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+1 @noromance
Very bizarre. All I did was put the OP’s words into ChatGPT and reposted them. Everyone can witness his/her/their reaction and judge it for themselves. I removed it because it seemed the humane thing to do. +1 @wolf_garcia
Exactly. Because there is content in what the OP says that has value, making it more readable seemed like a kindness but clearly it triggered our friend. |
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